Live Your Life- My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero by Amanda Kloots

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Amanda Kloots bravely reflects on love, loss, and life with her husband, Broadway star, and Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero, whose public battle with COVID-19 and tragic death made headlines around the world. In March 2020, Broadway star and Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero was hospitalized for what he and his wife, Amanda Kloots, believed to be a severe case of pneumonia. Entering the hospital, they had every reason to believe that Nick-a young father and otherwise healthy man-would return home. After an eventual diagnosis of COVID-19 that led to Nick's being placed on a ventilator, Amanda took to documenting their journey on social media, showing the dangers COVID-19 posed to everyone, regardless of age. Her updates quickly captivated millions, inspiring people around the globe to dance each day to Nick's song "Live Your Life" and offer positive thoughts and prayer. When he passed away after ninety-five grueling days in the ICU, the world grieved for Amanda, her infant son, Elvis, and the future COVID-19 had snatched away from them. Live Your Life is the story of Nick and Amanda's life together-of their beautiful relationship, of Nick's dramatic fight for survival, of those sudden tragic months that permanently changed her world and ours-and of their interrupted future as a family.

  • Product Features

    • Suggested age range- Adult
    • Format- Paperback
    • Product dimensions- 5.2" W x 7.9" H x 1" D
    • Genre- Personal growth and development
    • Publisher- HarperCollins Publishers, Publication date- 05-03-2022
    • Page count- 336
    • ISBN- 9780063078260
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Unfair to those who also lost family to Covid

I read this because I was familiar with Amanda's story since I follow Zach Braff on Instagram. I emphasize with everything Amanda and her family, including Nick's family had to go through. My heart aches for sweet little Elvis who was so young when his father passed and will only know him through the stories other people tell him. My issue with the book was she talked much about everything she was gifted during this time, the house, the parties, the private doctors paid for by a celebrity friend, the GoFundMe page, and the ability to see her husband on a regular basis. While she was grateful, and expressed that often, I feel it didn't set the right tone for others who also had family suffer from Covid. She admitted she lied to her Instagram followers during this about the frequency in which she visited Nick and complained when the hospital had to adjust the length or frequency of visits. (How Cedars-Sinai got away with her visiting so much is infuriating!) Anyone would complain under normal circumstances, of course, but since this was still the beginning of the pandemic when no one was allowed in hospitals, it was a slap in the face to those who could not be with their loved ones or had to say goodbye over Facetime (or not at all). I had to stop following her on social media after reading this book. The amount of tone-deaf privilege in this book left a sour note with me.

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